on 6/7/05 7:35 PM, scienceofabundance at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I was in Norwich, UK at the same time - first WPA in 1979 - I still > remember the very same thing very well - same reaction - everyone > laughed uproariously through the entire thing. In fact, a few of us > went out for a drink afterwards, it was so funny.
Makes me wonder now why I didn't begin to wonder then about the sanity of a movement that would dress someone up like that. We just took it in stride. > > Another fit of the giggles was on my TTC where there was a tape of a > UK physicist - Brian (?)Josephson with Geoffrey Clements. Josephson > was the ultimate eccentric - everytime he took a marker to write on > the board he would then put it in his shirt pocket, which soon had > about ten markers and Clements was left without any. Again, the > whole group laughed throughout the entire tape. Josephson was a kick. One time at a conference it was inconvenient for him to walk behind a table to his seat, so in front of the whole audience he just crawled under it and popped up on the other site. Domash had a great sense of humor too. One time during some conference he glued Keith Wallace's notebook to the table so that when he got up to speak, he pulled up the tablecloth. He also was very relaxed and irreverent around Maharishi. I remember an incident in Arosa (summer of '74) - Maharishi was writing something around 11am or so, working with other scientists, and they weren't making much progress. He sent for Larry, who came down with his hair wet looking like he had just gotten out of bed. He put his feet up on the table in front of him, right in front of Maharishi, and with his input, the thing was written in a few minutes. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
